[joyeuse6701]

I had an opinion similar to you, I didn't care about the drama of one team or another, what the significance of some move, or kick, or foul was. It seemed like just an exercise in physical prowess, and just a matter of genetic skill.

It irritated me to be asked about sports or asked what I was a fan of...

I grew a respect for sports after trying a few of them. From martial arts like Kendo or Jiujitsu, to high level chess, with enough practice you learn the rules and get an intuitive understanding, and then you see.

You see the physicality of a sport and you know how amazing that physical feat is, because you've tried something like it. You can understand on a deeper level the drama of the moment between two opponents as they are deciding what strategy, tactic and move to employ.

I may not always enjoy talking about some niche that someone else cares about, but I am now at least somewhat aware that they are trying to connect with me and they care about it because they probably know something that I don't.

[magduf]

>It irritated me to be asked about sports or asked what I was a fan of...

>I grew a respect for sports after trying a few of them. From martial arts like Kendo or Jiujitsu, to high level chess, with enough practice you learn the rules and get an intuitive understanding, and then you see.

Try talking to a football fan about jiujitsu or chess and see how far that conversation goes.

I can respect the physical skill needed to play a sport, but that doesn't mean I care to talk to someone about it, and it still irritates me to be asked what sports I follow and get a weird look when I say I don't. I don't think people are freaks if they don't listen to the same music I do, but sports fans absolutely treat people like freaks if they don't follow any sports.

[mcgrath_sh]

I don’t listen to music. Let me clarify, if I need to drown something out I put on the same half-dozen Classical music pieces that I can ignore while working, but outside that I do not listen to music. I listen to podcasts and audio books when commuting, playing games, cleaning, etc. I cannot tell you the number of times I have been told I was insane, weird, a serial killer, etc. all because I don’t listen to music. So, yeah, not just sports fans who treat people like trash if they don’t partake in their hobby.

[magduf]

>I cannot tell you the number of times I have been told I was insane, weird, a serial killer, etc. all because I don’t listen to music. So, yeah, not just sports fans who treat people like trash if they don’t partake in their hobby.

I'm sorry if some music lovers treated you this way. But did this happen at work? Musical tastes tend to be diverse these days, so I never hear people talking about music at work unless they already know the other person shares their particular taste. I talk about music with one of my coworkers, but that's because we found out with our shared music libraries (we have music libraries we bring to work and are then able to share with others on the network) that we like a lot of the same stuff. We even ended up going to a couple of concerts together. But again, this wasn't because anyone was badgering anyone about talking about prog-metal bands, it was because we found out through our music shares that we liked the same bands. Our coworkers mostly listen to other music (a few don't seem to listen to any), so we never talk music with them. In short, I just have a hard time imagining people these days talking much about music at work.